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SHANGHAI - CHINESE police said on Friday they had arrested a man suspected of killing a Canadian model in Shanghai.
Chen Jun, 18, was arrested Friday in the city of Xuancheng in the eastern province of Anhui, 300 kilometres from Shanghai, Shanghai police said in a statement.
Diana O'Brien, 22, was found dead on Monday in the stairwell of an apartment building where she lived with another Canadian model, according to newspaper reports. A trail of blood led to the door of her sixth floor apartment, reports said.
She had been in China for less than two weeks, according to the police.
Surveillance cameras in the apartment building captured images of the suspect, Toronto's Globe and Mail reported.
Chen allegedly confessed to killing the Canadian woman, saying he had followed her with the intention of robbing her apartment, the statement said.
'During interrogation, the suspect, Chen Jun, confessed that he tracked the victim on Zhaohua Road and tailed her into the apartment,' the statement read.
'When the victim resisted, he killed her and stole her money and property.' The statement gave no details of what weapon was used or how O'Brien was killed.
Police recovered a laptop after the arrest, along with other items taken from the woman's apartment, according to the statement.
O'Brien came to Shanghai from Salt Spring Island in Canada's British Colombia hoping to launch an international career, the Globe and Mail reported.
But her contract with a Chinese-based agency turned out to mostly involve jobs as a bar dancer, the paper said.
She had told a friend she was unhappy in China and would be returning home this month, the newspaper reported. -- AFP
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